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Trump may be the beginning of the end for ‘enshittification’ – this is our chance to make tech good again (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] 12 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Everyone thinks they can leverage trump for their own agenda because he's a wildcard. But unless you're directly putting money toward his whatever you're very unlikely to get the result you want. And even if you do send money his way, there's a pretty good chance he'll turn on your at some point.

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  • [–] 28 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    That isn't what the article is proposing. The premise is that Trump's tariffs and policies have functionally brought into reality the only action that previously acted as threats to keep other countries from reverse engineering American tech and creating solutions to de-shittify products and services. If the threats are no longer valid, there's nothing stopping them from doing so, and providing better versions of existing products, or products that remove the enshittification from the existing options.

    In short, they aren't calling on Trump to take action, they're calling on others to leverage the actions Trump has already taken.

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Ah, you mean like how some countries that were previously COMPLETELY under the thumb of the US and seemingly happy about it are finally starting to disentangle themselves a tiny bit because the fascist kakistocracy makes even the appearance of cooperation unfeasible?

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    That too but the article is more focused on how before the US would threaten countries with unreasonable tariffs if they didn't comply and let US tech giants rule. Well...Trump already levied unreasonable tariffs, so if they are already hit with tarrifs, why not just created their.own versions of the solutions? Why not ban X and Grok?

    Obviously Cory takes an optimistic view of what could be done. The way I look at it is that more and more countries will take a Chinese approach to tech and go for a total control over what we can do online and visibility (no privacy) into everything.

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